In 1989, explaining the Wall Street Journal's reluctance to use extensive illustration, Glynn Mapes, Page One editor told a reporter, "In business journalism, the pictures are boring . . . You've got new office buildings and new chief executives, who all look alike."

In the past decade the face of business has been changing, perhaps nowhere more evident than in the increasing number of successful female business leaders. But picturing women has sometimes been a challenge for artists at the Wall Street Journal. The reason? Hairdos. Artist Noli Novak recalls complaints that in Journal hedcuts, women's faces were smaller than those of men. "But how do you deal with hair?," Novak asks. The answer: it's often now cropped, as the hedcuts of these prominent female executives indicate.